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Lowering XP is easy as long as you use a lot of foes that don't carry gear.

BAB, skill points, and saves use your class. You get everything else from the Undead type (plus the special qualities in the template) What you get from the undead type: 12-sided Hit Dice. No Constitution score. Darkvision out to 60 feet. Immunity to all mind-affecting effects (charms...

You don't gain LA. If you did, the Dragon Disciple would go from "weak" to "so terrible it needs to be taken behind the shed and put out of its misery".

I take it slippers of spider climbing aren't "casual" enough for you?

Ok, I'm starting to stat the character up now (have a few hours free to fiddle with it). I'm making the character at level 9, 36k in gear, 32 point buy. I'm leaning towards Warblade 7 / Swordsage 2, unless someone can come up with some better alternative. The game uses XP penalties, so...

Looks like a gibberish word, or at the very least a word with such an obscure meaning that all google references are DnD related.

The DMG gives a guideline for picking appropriate other creatures based on the CR of the mount. I forget what the guideline IS off the top of my head, and I don't have my books handy. Whatever it is, note that it is a guideline, not a rule. Compare it to existing options. Most huge creatures...

If it is granted by Shadow Dancer, yes. There are other sources of Hide in Plain Sight that function differently. If it is a 17th level ranger, they just need to be in a natural environment. Imagine a 17th level dwarf ranger hiding in a lightless cave without cover or concealment (thanks to...

That is the way I feel. Temporary HP are a specific exception to this. I feel this spell either heals the target, or it it provides temporary HP. Healing is just simpler. That being said, reading an ambiguous spell to have an effect that is massively overpowered and does not exist anywhere...

Yes. 1) It can use the hide skill while being observed. 2) It can hide without "anything to hide behind" (read as: without cover or concealment). It doesn't matter what type of vision the foe is using. This part is based on the nearness of the shadows, and makes no exception for people who...

Lots of things provide concealment without cover. A bush, a fog bank, a convenient movie-style curtain (with toes sticking out from underneath it, natural), invisibility, blur (yes, stand in the middle of an empty room, cast blur, and you can hide), etc. Edit re blur hypo: You still need to...

I'm just concerned I won't get much use out of pounce, so there might be better options.

Regarding the Swordsage 2 v. Swordsage 1 / "Fighter" 1: I don't think I'll be using rage, since that will screw with Diamond Mind maneuvers that use concentration (huge fan of Moment of Perfect Mind. That will probably be useful for the character's entire existence). Is it still worth it...

What you've suggested is roughly what I was thinking. My main concern with a straight swordsage is that I want this guy to be a bit of a "tank" since for this group we're a bit squishy right now, so AC and armor are important (if warblade, probably mithral plate). As much as I want to show off...

Next session a few players will be missing, so the DM will be running a mini-session for just two players (myself and one other). Given that both of us play arcane casters, we've decided to use this session to test out Tome of Battle for our game by introducing a warrior NPC to accompany us...

Clearly the current rules text is missing something, the question is what. My first instinct was to read it as healing. In my game it wouldn't put you over your max. Seems to be the simplest approach without needed to invent extra mechanical decisions like durations for temp HP, or deal with...

So you agree, excellent! You have failed to find text stating that all costs are always doubled. You found a series of separate bits of rules text that each refer only to their own instance, not a general rule. And you conveniently neglect any references to special materials (cold iron...

Intent is only a necessary inquiry when the rules are vague. Here, they are not. Weapon, +3,000. Dagger, spear head, greatsword, orc double axe, there is no distinction made. Each is a weapon. This makes adamantine different from every other material type (mithral is by weight for weapons...

I disagree. First, you will not be able to find any text explicitly stating that all costs for double weapons are always doubled. Next, contrast the entries for adamantine and alchemical silver. Adamantine: Weapon +3,000 gp Alchemical Silver: One-handed weapon, or one head of a double...

I'm leery of taking spells for a sorcerer that are only useful in certain situations, especially as your first spell of a new level.